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Astronomical and navigational instruments
Astronomical and navigational instruments
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Astrolabes and quadrants
Celestial navigation
Charting instruments
Compasses
Course, speed and distance indicators
Electronic navigation
Globes and globe gores
Meteorological instruments
Optical equipment
Sundials
Telescopes
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Air thermometer
armament accessory: cleaning rod
Box
Broken part
Bureau
Bust
Carving
Chess
Cistern barometer
Cleaning rod
clothing accessory: stretcher, glove
commemorative artifact: box
commemorative artifact: box, token
commemorative artifact: box, wafer
commemorative artifact: fan
Concertina
Dance card
Dao
Design model
Desk and washstand
Dessert knife
documentary artifact: dance card
documentary artifact: model, ethnographic boat
documentary artifact: ticket, opera
drafting t&e: drawing instruments
drafting t&e: drawing instrument set
drafting t&e: rule
drafting t&e: rule, parallel
drafting t&e: sector
drafting t&e: set square
drawing instruments
Drawing instrument set
Easel
Equipment model
Fan
food service t&e: knife, dessert
Full hull model
furniture, ship's: desk, washstand &
furniture: bureau
furniture: easel
game: chess
Glass and ivory picture
Glove stretcher
Gunter's scales
Handle
Hot water jug
Hygrometer
jug, hot water
medical & psychological t&e: chest, medicine
Medicine chest
Mercury barometer
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury(marine stick cistern barometer)
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, cistern(domestic)
meteorological t&e: barometer, mercury: barometer, stick(marine barometer, cistern)
meteorological t&e: hygrometer
meteorological t&e: thermometer
meteorological t&e: thermometer, air
meteorological t&e: thermometer, table
meteorological t&e: thermometer, wine
Miniature painting
miniature painting
musical t&e, ship's: piano
musical t&e: concertina
Notebook
Octant
Octant with Artificial Horizon
Opera ticket
original art: bust
original art: ornament
original art: ornament: carving, elephant
original art: painting, miniature
original art: plaque
original art: plaque, portrait
original art: plaque, scenic
original art: statuette
Ornament
Parallel rule
Patch box
Penknife
personal gear: box, patch
personal gear: penknife
personal gear: umbrella
personal gear: vinaigrette
personal symbol: coronet, ducal
personal symbol: coronet, viscount's
personal symbol: flag
Piano
Picture
Pig jaw bone
Pin case
Plaque
Portrait plaque
presentation artifact: box
presentation artifact: case, toothpick
Quintant
relic, animal: bone, pig jaw
rule
Sector
Set square
Sextant
Sheath
Ship equipment model
Statuette
Stick barometer
surveying & navigational t&e: octant
surveying & navigational t&e: octant(with artificial horizon)
surveying & navigational t&e: octant, surveyor's ?
surveying & navigational t&e: scales, gunter's
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant(experimental)
Surveyor's Octant
Table thermometer
Teapot
textileworking t&e: case, pin ?
Thermometer
timekeeping t&e: calendar, perpetual
toilet article: box, toilet
toilet article: case, toothpick
Toilet box
Token box
Token box base
Token box lid
Toothpick
Toothpick case
Umbrella
Vinaigrette
Wafer box
water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: 2nd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 3rd rate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: 100 gun ship
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship
water transport: native craft: kayak
water transport accessory: rudder, common
water transport accessory: rudder, Thompson's patent
water transport component: model design
Wine thermometer
written communication t&e: notebook
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coating: enamel
coating: gilt
glass
gold
gold alloy
human hair
inorganic: ceramic: vitreous paste
inorganic: ceramic: vitreous paste, ?
inorganic: marble
inorganic: stone: lava, ?
inorganic: sulphide
metal
metal: brass
metal: brass [handles]
metal: brass [handle]
metal: bronze
metal: copper
metal: copper-alloy
metal: copper-gilt
metal: electro-plate
metal: electro-plate: organic: ivory
metal: enamel
metal: gilt
metal: gold, ?
metal: iron
metal: lead
metal: silver
metal: silver-gilt
metal: steel
metal: unknown
organic: bone, pig
organic: bone ?
organic: ivory
organic: ivory, ?
organic: ivory ?
organic: ivory [drawer knobs]
organic: leather
organic: mother-of-pearl
organic: shell
organic: silk
organic: skin
organic: tortoiseshell
organic: twine
organic: velvet
organic: wood: ebony
organic: wood: ebony, ?
organic: wood: oak
synthetic: glass
textile
velvet
watercolour paint
wood
wood: ebony
wood: mahogany
wood: mahogany ?
wood: mahogany [box]
wood: oak
wood: satinwood
wood: teak
wood: walnut
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Display - Atlantic Gallery
Display - Nelson, Navy, Nation Gallery
Display - Pacific Encounters Gallery
Display - ROG
Display - Sea Things Gallery
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Abbott, Lemuel Francis
Alexander, Alexander
Banks
Bassnett, James
Beechey, William
Bianchetti, Isidore
Bord
Bradford, Edward Eden
Bradford, George
Cail, Septimus Anthony
Captain Cook Birthplace Museum
Cary
Cary, William
Chevalier
Clabell
Cole, Benjamin
Cook
Cox, W. C.
Crichton
Davis, Gabriel
De La Rue, Elias
Dixey, Charles Wastell
Dollond & Aitchison
Dring & Fage
E. & E. Emanuel
Edgeworth, Henry
Elkington & Co. Ltd
Elser
Gardner, John
Gilbert & Sons
Gilkerson and Co
Gregory & Wright
Gregory, Henry
Harling, W H
Harris, William
Heath & Wing
Hennessy, Bernard Rudkin
Holm, P
Hoppner, after John
Hoskins, J.
Hube
Hughes, James
Hughes, Joseph
Johnson
Jones & Co
Jones, George
Kley, Jacobus
Lake, Tho
Lake, Thomas
Le Maire, P.
Leverton, John
Milne, Alexander
Negretti & Zambra
Norie & Co., J.W.
Owens, Owen
Owltic Ibbotson
Parnell, William
Perica
Potter, John Dennett
Ramsden, Jesse
Raymond
Rubbergall, M
Rubergall, Thomas
Salmon, Robert
Schulen & Boby
Smith, Egerton
Spencer & Co
Spencer Browning & Rust
Sweeny
Tassie, James
Troughton
Tsar Alexander III of Russia
Tuttell, Thomas
Unknown
Urings, John
Voyez
Watkins & Smith
Wedgwood, Josiah
Whitbread, G.
Whitbread, George
Worthington, Nathaniel
Wright, Gabriel
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Borneo
Brest, France
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Devonport
England
Exeter
France
Glasgow
Great Yarmouth
Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK
Holborn
Ipswich
Italy
Leeds
Liverpool
London
Marseilles
Newcastle upon Tyne
Paris
Portsea
Rotterdam
Sheffield
Strand
Swansea, England
United States of America
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Vanuatu
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Anglo-Spanish War: Thirteenth Siege of Gibraltar, 1727
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St Vincent, 1797
French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of the Nile, 1798
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801
Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
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Vessels
Alexandra (1875)
Crocodile 1825
Nelson (1925)
Norma fl.1874
Pylades 1884 (HMS)
Temeraire (1798)
Victory (1765)
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North-West Passage
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
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Baddeley, William
Berry, Edward
Cooper, Ernest R
Ekborg, Karl
Figg, William
Fitzroy, Charles Augustus
Fitzroy, Robert
Goy & Co
Griffin
Hamilton, Emma
Heather, G
Holloway, G R
Holm, Pieter
Milne, Alexander
Nelson, Frances Herbert
Nelson, Horatio
Petty Officer Morley
Queen Mary, Consort of King George V
Sproule, Andrew
Stopford, Robert
Thompson
Walter, John Henry Fraser
Watts, Philip
Williams, Joseph Battison (Borough Surveyo
Wyatt, P J
Young, Earnest A.
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